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Iran’s state radio reported that clashes in the Iranian capital the previous night left seven people dead after an “unauthorized gathering” following a mass rally over alleged election fraud.
The seven were killed in shooting that erupted after protesters in western Tehran “tried to attack a military location,” the radio said, providing no details.
It was the first official confirmation of Monday’s fatalities in Tehran’s Azadi Square, where witnesses had seen at least one person shot dead and several others seriously wounded by gunfire from a compound for volunteer militia linked to Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard.
VIDEO: Basiji (Paramilitary force) opening fire on Tehran demonstrators
Previous headline: Gunfire Erupted at Major Opposition Rally in Tehran
PRESS TV reporter says the shooting in Tehran happened in Azadi Square, killing at least 1 person and causing panic.
URGENT — Iranian state TV says gunfire has erupted at the pro-Mousavi rally in Tehran where hundreds of thousands of people were protesting.
Huge pro-reform rally defies crackdown threats
(The Independent) – Many tens of thousands of Iranians chanted support for Mirhossein Mousavi in Tehran today after a presidential election they say was stolen from him and handed to the hardline incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest), they converged on Revolution Square, where Mousavi addressed a small part of the crowd through a loud hailer and held his fists clenched above his head, in a sign of victory, after two days of the capital’s most violent unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Supporters stretching along several kilometres of a Tehran boulevard waved green flags, Mousavi’s campaign colours, and held portraits of him aloft as they tried to take pictures on their cellphones – even though his words could not be heard above the noise of the crowd.
Iran’s state television said Mousavi, looking smiling and relaxed in a striped shirt, had said he was ready in case the election was re-run.
“Mousavi, take back our votes,” the marchers chanted before Mousavi appeared, along with other pro-reform leaders who backed his call for Friday’s election result to be overturned.
Apparently there is a full-blown power struggle amongst the Iranian clergy, Supreme Leader Ayatolla Ali Khamenei is moving away from support for president Ahmadinejad.
[No source yet to confirm trustworthy reports from radio correspondents in Iran – Oui]
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."